Posted: February 13th, 2019
Technetix B.V. & Ors v. Teleste Limited, High Court, London, UK, 29 January 2019, Neutral Citation Number: [2019] EWHC 126 (IPEC) This case was brought by the patentee, Technetix B.V (and two licensees) claiming infringement of UK Patent No. 2,382,473 B (“UK’473”), a patent relating to cable tap units used in the distribution of signals […]
READ MOREPosted: February 8th, 2019
Garmin (Europe) Limited v Koninklijke Philips N.V., Patents Court, London, UK, 29 January 2019, case no. [2019] EWHC 107 (Ch) This was a claim brought by Garmin for revocation of Philips’ patent EP (UK) 1,076,806 B1 relating to a portable GPS based athletic performance monitor and to the use of the device in an external […]
READ MOREPosted: November 21st, 2018
Construction Diffusion Vente Internationale SA (‘CDVI’) v. Impro Technologies Europe B.V. and Alphatronics B.V., District Court The Hague, The Netherlands, 21 November 2018, Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2018:13746 CDVI holds EP 1245006 for an electronic card reader. CDVI accuses Impro c.s. to infringe claim 1 of the patent. Impro’s defence is that CDVI’s patent is invalid due […]
READ MOREPosted: November 14th, 2018
The UKSC has introduced a new test for the infringement of Swiss form second medical use claims and clarified the application of the test for plausibility of purpose-limited claims, by Tim Powell, Bethan Hopewell, Siddharth Kusumakar and Joel Coles, Powell Gilbert LLP The United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) today handed down its highly-anticipated judgment in the […]
READ MOREPosted: November 1st, 2018
Court of Milan overturns first instance decision on appeal (“reclamo”) and orders a preliminary injunction based on equivalent infringement of Eli Lilly’s Alimta® patent In a decision of 15th October 2018 in urgent proceedings, the Court of Milan’s appeal panel (comprised of President and Judge rapporteur, Mr Claudio Marangoni and Judges Anna Bellesi and Alima […]
READ MOREPosted: June 20th, 2018
High Point SARL v. KPN B.V., Court of Appeal The Hague, The Netherlands, 5 June 2018, Case no. ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2018:1271 High Point is the owner of EP 0 522 772 which relates to a ‘Wireless access telephone-to-telephone network interface architecture’. It has sued KPN for infringement. KPN, in turn, has claimed the invalidation of EP 772. […]
READ MOREPosted: May 1st, 2018
Hewlett-Packard Development Company v. Benson Image, Top Printing and Aigostar, District Court the Hague, 25 April 2018, ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2018:4810 HP is the holder of the European patent EP 1 330 360 titled “Inkjet printhead”. The patent was granted on 11 March 2009 relying on the priority date of US 702267 (30 October 2000). Claim 1 of […]
READ MOREPosted: December 22nd, 2017
Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly Danmark A/S (“Lilly”) v. Fresenius Kabi AB v/Fresenius Kabi and Fresenius Kabi Oncology Plc. (“Fresenius Kabi”), the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court, Case number A-19-17, 8 December 2017 The case concerns the infringement of Lilly’s patent DK/EP 1 313 508 (“DK/EP ‘508”) which relates to the use […]
READ MOREPosted: May 24th, 2017
Curt G Joa, Inc v Fameccanica Data SpA, UK, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, Hacon HHJ, 24 May 2017 This case concerned a patent for “disposable absorbent garments”, including nappies/diapers and adult incontinence garments. By the time the case came to trial, the patentee had made both unconditional and conditional applications to amend the claims of […]
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